The read
It runs long at 3h 15m.
Synopsis
Heldenplatz centers on a Jewish family in the Vienna of 1988. The main character, Professor Josef Schuster, a mathematician, who can no longer stand the anti-Semitism he still finds in Austria 50 years after the Anschluss – commits suicide by jumping out of his apartment window onto the historic Heldenplatz before the play begins.
Ratings
IMDb8.2/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Claus PeymannDirector
- Thomas BernhardWriter
Cast
- Wolfgang GasserRobert Schuster
- Kirsten DeneAnna
- Karlheinz HacklLukas Schuster
- Marianne HoppeHedwig Schuster
- Therese AffolterHertha
- Elisabeth RathOlga
- Anneliese RömerFrau Zittel